Word: backyarders
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Playin’ backyard bombardier?...
...airs BBC hits from Britain, such as Changing Rooms and The Office; it imports popular programs that other British broadcasters run, like the talk show So Graham Norton; and it's creating American spin-offs. An import called Ground Force, on which professional gardeners fix up a bloke's backyard, also airs as an American version with a team of gardeners digging up backyards in places like New Orleans, Miami and Bordentown, N.J. It's one of the channel's biggest hits, with a prime-time audience of about 350,000 viewers, says Paul Lee, CEO of BBCA. That...
...said the Balkans are a “powder keg,” in Greece’s backyard, and commented that he’s far more worried about escalation of conflict in Kosovo than about the war in Iraq...
...Species Act and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species make it illegal to import a wild tiger. But there is no need to import one, says Nicole Paquette, legal-affairs director for the Animal Protection Institute in Sacramento, Calif.: "Tigers reproduce easily, and there are plenty of backyard breeders producing cubs. They're like puppy mills." Anyone who wants a tiger can go to an alternative-livestock auction. Or if that is too much trouble, they can just surf the Web, where large-scale breeding operations and mom-and-pop outfits advertise cubs for as little...
Eating pizza in her backyard while her 14-year-old daughter braided her hair, she told canvassers that she “definitely” planned to vote for Kerry...